Posted on 05/10/2006 7:56:48 PM PDT by Tzimisce
No wait, not six. To hell with that. Make it 10. Ten bucks a gallon, no matter what the going rate for a barrel of light sweet crude. That would so completely, violently, brilliantly do it. Revolutionize the country. Firebomb our pungent stasis. Change everything. Don't you agree?
Here's what we could do: Give gas discounts to cab drivers (at least initially) and metro transit systems and low-income folks, those who have to drive their busted-up '78 Honda Civics to their jobs scrubbing restaurant toilets and flipping burgers and vacuuming the residual cocaine from the seat cushions of numb SUV owners. Everyone else, 10 bucks a gallon, across the board. Eleven for premium.
It would take some finessing. Maybe also give a price break to some truckers and trucking companies (so vital to the overall economy), but not so much to global delivery companies (FedEx, DSL et al.), because not doing so would force them to raise shipping rates and force you (and me) to reconsider buying everything online and hence will encourage you to shop locally once again, thus reviving a stagnant local economy.
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From Wikipedia.
"Mark Morford is a tattooed, iconoclastic columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. His liberal-leaning social commentary column is called Notes & Errata. "Edgy" is a mild description of his work, considering that his columns have gotten him suspended."
We got the same problem from Republicans here in Florida, not even counting the nut and berry crowd.
Stalin has been reincarnated as a Fag named Morford in San Francisco.
Maybe we ought to raise the coast of condoms sold in bath houses in S.F to $10. I bet that would Moford in his, um, pocketbook-or purse.
I wouldn't be surprised to see $6 or $10/gal. at some point in my life. Years down the road, of course, when world demand is much higher and supply is in shakier shape. Or sooner, if something like an embargo or attack shuts off Iran's exports. I suspect that such insane prices will be necessary to ever get the US public to use fuels other than gasoline.
It's not a great socialist fantasy of mine like it appears to be for this guy, but it seems an inevitable part of a natural progression away from gas. My educated guess is that people will eventually have to come to grips with the idea.
This might be a new record for Morford, he wrote an entire article without a reference to gay sex. Though he did mention porn.....
Speaking of clearing the roads....
What about the break for local munis with snow plowing to do? They only get about one half to one mile per gallon when pushin' snow.
That is where global warming comes in.
Moron.
That's pretty much how I see it, 'nuff blame to go around.
But y' know, since we are evidently now a nation that waits for trouble when we have seen it coming for several decades and done nothing, like with the borders, drug demand, all sorts of things, well, in such cases perhaps getting a swift kick in our lazy wise-asses with, well, maybe, a skyscraper getting blown down in a major city...no...er...that won't work.....an indigent foreigner invasion...nah...they can sleep in the woods...and in the emergency wards, delivering babies....fatal diseases and frequent murders from funding drug gangs....well...then where will we get our fun from...??!! OK...OK...I've got it, $10 gasoline, so we actually DO something (of course for wimpy, self-gratification reasons, not wisdom or national welfare, like WHEN our foreign sources are closed, it will be too late to drill and crack and pump...) but perhaps again, the resilient American freedom under law system will rescue our worthless asses by the working of simple Capitalism.....the demand causing us to not only drill our own stuff, but perhaps even change our 100 year old gasoline engine technology for something better, rather than struggling to preserve the buggy industry by growing super oats, and 5 legged horses.
Years ago if you told me our space project would mostly yield great pictures and a golf game on the moon, but in the 21st. century we'd still be running our Japanese teardrop cars on stuff even Henry Ford thought was a second choice, I'd have laughed.
Then again, I'd also have laughed about people having bones through their noses, and people debating the sensitivities and motivations of the people who slit our stewardesses throats with razor blades and crashed our planes into our Pentagon and office buildings...so what did I know, after all?!
$10 gas?
We need it.
Sorry, my bad.
Finally an honest liberal!!!
This is the wet dream of all "progressive" politicians - they just don't have the balls to share it with us, or maybe they're smart enough to know what our reaction will be.
Forgive my exhaustion, I'm posting tired, not a good thing.
I do have a point, despite the comparison.
I understand that FR posts regarding illegal aliens will focus on the southern border because Freepers are from all places across America.
But I'm from Brooklyn, and NYC is my sustenance turf. I must admit that I admire the "gentle people of the Mexican persuasion" who snuck all the way here. They are unique in that they put up a noble fascade of cheerfulness in their work ethic. They are a weak target, and it is an immature stance to be held by anyone professing to be conservative.
I'm not defending them; illegals should be deported.
What bugs me is that on the other side of the coin, FReepers are ignoring all the other Tom, Dick, and Harrys from the rest of the planet who are here illegally, and taking REAL and SKILLED jobs from American citizens coming of age.
Down South, we'll always need migrant farm workers.
I have wanted to get my two cent's in, but I don't care to argue about it. Good Night.
What's amazing is that he will support you if you decide to add $4 in tax to a gallon of gas, but if you suggest that Exxon should get the $4 as profit he'll kick you down the stairs.
Shalom.
Its time for Alaska to say screw the feds. Why should they suffer because a bunch dumb asses in California and New York are hung up on some tree hugger fairy tale that ANWR is the garden of Eden? For most of the year, its flies and mosquitoes, and the other part a frozen tundra. If I were the Alaskans, I would pass a state amendment reclaiming ANWR and start pumping the black gold and distributing the revenue to its citizens.
Why the hell should alaska get driven into the 3rd world with the rest of these idiots in the blue states? It has its own resources, plenty of land and one of the last places Jefferson or Washington would consider living in the US these days.
"...vacuuming the residual cocaine from the seat cushions of numb SUV owners."
I'm offended. I own a SUV but am not numb nor do coke. What really pisses me off is that I have to vacuum my own SUV.
Me too, and I'm a Californian.
So, gas real cheap where you live?
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